Western Stevedoring activity review for January – December, 2013

Western Stevedoring activity review for January – December, 2013

Tuesday, 28 January 2014

Western Stevedoring in January-December, 2013 reached 1060.5 thousand tons throughput of sea cargoes. This is the best cargo handling result in company’s history. In comparison to corresponding period of 2012 the overall growth of handling volumes was 5.5 percent.Within analyzed period, the highest growth was recorded in the group of liquid cargoes, which accounted +108.4 percent compared to the same period in 2012. Such result was mainly influenced by the second liquid cargo terminal, which was launched in November 2012, and was dedicated to molasses cargo processing.

In terms of other cargo groups, general cargo group showed an increase of handling volumes by 7.8 proc. comparing with the corresponding period of the previous year. Such increase was an outcome of higher volumes of steel production as well as influence of packed ash cargo, which handling operations started in September 2012 (though in 2012 were no ship load operations).